DREADFUL NEW YORK
"New York gives me a perfectly different feeling from London. It is not so big, but it is most monstrous in every way. Waste, waste of wealth and men and women. Vulgar display, implacable self-assertion, a sort of half-rhetorical, half-challenging attitude towards others, a living in prescene of an oudience, theatricality of spirit—that is what strikes one in general here. . . . There is none of the feeling of settledness, or of being in hand and looked after and controlled, that there is in London. London has its own most dark side, and God knows it is not kept out of view; but I can walk there in calmness of spirit at night, while here, last night I felt as a deer may feel in the forest in the darkness —listening to the snap of every twig. No doubt I'd; get over it if I were here for some time, and no doubt I was a little tired after the long dusty 'journey from Texas. But I do not want to see New York any more."—Sir Henry Jones, •in a letter to his son in 1912.
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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1593, 8 January 1925, Page 8
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187DREADFUL NEW YORK Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1593, 8 January 1925, Page 8
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